Summer Dress with Gathered Rectangle Skirt and Cap Sleeves

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Finally I found the right fabric for this dress! It is a lovely, light cotton with embroidery and I knew that this is IT! I had to carefully cut out the pieces to get the right embroidery where I wanted it to be and I’m really happy how it turned out :) I have used cotton voile on bias as lining for the top and polyester stretch for the skirt without gathering. The dress is based on pattern #101 Burda 02/2011. I have made a top of this pattern before, and I do love the cap sleeves.www.burdastyle.com/projects/bustier-top-with-cap-sleeves

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That dress looks lovely on you. Great job on the project.
I am thinking of making this dress in white eyelet. Did you line yours? Did you need to make any modifications to the pattern? It’s just that we have similar body types and I assume if you didn’t need to change it I wouldn’t either. Thanks!

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Hi Belira, thanks alot for your lovely comments! Since I used light cotton I had to use lining, but then I cut the cotton voile on bias for the top (then it feels a bit stretchy) and I made a half circle skirt (without gathering). If you measure your body it’s easy to find the right size for Burda patterns. You can see the table at the beginning of the instruction. Happy sewing to you :-)

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Ellen, this is so lovely! I swear to God I have this pattern in front of me, I wanted to make it from sky blue linen with cotton lace detail. I love how it tuned out! It was only by chance I came across your project. I was looking for finished projects for the pattern and noticed it! Shame my activity feed does not work so I can get notifications when a new project is added, I have reported it but no change.

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Oh, that’s so nice to hear about your project Irina, and I’m really looking forward to see it when you’re ready! It seems like a beautiful dress and I do like linen very much too! Yeah, I hope BurdaStyle solve this problem very sooooon……!!

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